 The Chancellor's Declaration of Free Speech here has prompted questions about hate speech. Cal TV sat down with Dean of the Law School Erwin Chemerinsky for his take. Hate speech is protected speech under the First Amendment. There's no distinction between free speech on the one hand and hate speech on the other. Chemerinsky said that the Supreme Court has made it clear that even hateful expression is protected under the Constitution. So when the Nazis wanted to march in Skokie in the late 1970s and early 1980s and the town tried to stop them, every court, including the Supreme Court, said the Nazis had a right to express their hateful message. When Richard Spencer, the white supremacist, wanted to speak on the Auburn campus and the university tried to stop him, he sued and got an injunction protecting his ability to speak. For the Dean, there is no exception in the First Amendment for hate speech. We can certainly have a discussion about whether hate speech should be protected by the First Amendment, but under current law it's clear that hate speech is protected speech. Chemerinsky also made it clear that free speech is not absolute. Individuals have no right to falsely shout fire in a crowded theater, promote false and deceptive advertising, or incite illegal activities just to name a few. He says that it is difficult to define what hate speech is when campus adopted hate speech codes. It's a speech that expresses animus to a particular group on the basis of race or sex or religion or sexual orientation. It's speech that tries to vilify a group based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation. But none of those definitions is very precise. When it comes to how UC Berkeley has handled controversial speakers, he says so far UC Berkeley has done a superb job in protecting free speech while upholding safety for the community. Ben Shapiro, Milo Yiannopoulos came onto campus. There was no violence, no incidents. They got to speak and everyone's safety was protected. At the same time I know that students across campus have organized counter demonstrations. If free speech could happen, there would be many counter events. I think that's the appropriate response to the speech we don't like. Reporting for CalTV, I'm Anna Luck.